Wife Quotes - Page 20

• Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Husband, Calling

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• Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

  Claire Vaye Watkins

  Memories, Kitchen, Shapes

  Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.26, Granta Books

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• I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.

  Saul

  Growing Up, World, Caught

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• When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

  Al Goldstein

  New York, Taken, Son

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• As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Father, Iron

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• The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

  Ernestine Rose

  Heart, Hands, People

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Carriages, Walks, Walking

  Thomas De Quincey (1867). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. And analects from John Paul Richter ... New edition”, p.23

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• My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Dream, Mean, Doe

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• I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

  Chris Ware

  Friends, Mom, Realizing

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Football, Morning, Children

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• I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

  Tom Wopat

  Love, Kids, Land

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• I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

  Max Schmeling

  Marriage, Nice, Want

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• Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Movie, Girl, America

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• The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Kids, Pneumonia, Years

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• Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.

  Cesar Romero

  Sex, Pride, Gay

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• I'm gonna try to be cured. I've been on heroin eight years and I want to try a different style of life. It made me split up from my wife. It ruined a lot of things for me.

  Johnny Thunders

  Eight, Years, Style

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• I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Jesus, School

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Mother, Children

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• It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

  George Farquhar

  Power, Men, Should

  George Farquhar, Arthur Murphy, George sen Colman, David Garrick (1817). “Comedy of the Beaux Stratagem with the Biography of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.64

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• Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

  Gary Snyder

  Stars, Space, Mind

  Gary Snyder (1974). “Turtle Island”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Father, Men, Ties

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.18, tredition

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• We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."

  Joan Didion

  Husband, Self, Psychosis

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• Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother.

  James Fox

  Mother, Loving Life, Childhood

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• Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Mean, Son, Thinking

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• Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

  James L. Brooks

  Dog, Hero, Hard Times

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